Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting Parts of the Science. Together with an Examination of the Question, Whether the Days of Creation Were Indefinite Periods. Designed for the Use of Schools and General ReadersRobinson, Pratt, & Company, 1836 - 372 pàgines |
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Pàgina viii
... bones found in , 264 on distinguishing fossil bones , Dyke , 167 233 on ancient species of ani- mals , Earth , density of the , 19 232 temperature of , 22 thinks there are no new species , internal heat of , 121 236 has suffered changes ...
... bones found in , 264 on distinguishing fossil bones , Dyke , 167 233 on ancient species of ani- mals , Earth , density of the , 19 232 temperature of , 22 thinks there are no new species , internal heat of , 121 236 has suffered changes ...
Pàgina ix
... bones , fossil , 17 263 human bones , 263 how came they in caverns , 267 plants and shells , 270 Hyena's bones at Kirkdale , 217 plants , shells , 272 292 Ichthyosaurus , 252 fishes , 295 Iguanadon , 215-252 trilobite , 295 Igneous ...
... bones , fossil , 17 263 human bones , 263 how came they in caverns , 267 plants and shells , 270 Hyena's bones at Kirkdale , 217 plants , shells , 272 292 Ichthyosaurus , 252 fishes , 295 Iguanadon , 215-252 trilobite , 295 Igneous ...
Pàgina x
... bones found in , Kosritz , human bones found in , Land and sea , proportions of , Lava , Lake Cirknitzersee , 216 Monte Bolca , fossil fish of , 217 Monocotyledonous plants , 266 Morea , caverns in the , Mosaic history of the deluge ...
... bones found in , Kosritz , human bones found in , Land and sea , proportions of , Lava , Lake Cirknitzersee , 216 Monte Bolca , fossil fish of , 217 Monocotyledonous plants , 266 Morea , caverns in the , Mosaic history of the deluge ...
Pàgina 4
... bones . This idea was probably suggested , for the purpose of accounting for the appear- ance of shells in places where it was supposed impossible the sea should ever have been ; the idea that the sea had changed its bed , or that the ...
... bones . This idea was probably suggested , for the purpose of accounting for the appear- ance of shells in places where it was supposed impossible the sea should ever have been ; the idea that the sea had changed its bed , or that the ...
Pàgina 6
... bones , and such like things , were nothing more than the " sports of nature . " In the midst of those who entertained such fanciful no- tions , which indeed were characteristic of the age , there was not wanting a few , who like ...
... bones , and such like things , were nothing more than the " sports of nature . " In the midst of those who entertained such fanciful no- tions , which indeed were characteristic of the age , there was not wanting a few , who like ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 305 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Pàgina 302 - Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth"; 1 VOID : empty.
Pàgina 307 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth and in the open firmament of heaven.
Pàgina 352 - God said, Let there be light: let there be a firmament: let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place: let the earth bring forth: let there be lights in the firmament of heaven.
Pàgina 319 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Pàgina 326 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Pàgina 214 - On the keeper putting a spar of wood two inches in diameter into his den, he cracked it in pieces as if it had been touchwood, and in a minute the whole was reduced to a mass of splinters. The power of his jaws far exceeded any animal force of the kind I ever saw exerted, and reminded me of nothing so much as a miner's crushing mill, or the scissors with which they cut off bars of iron and copper in the metal foundries.
Pàgina 325 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God mad* the earth and the heavens.
Pàgina 353 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field...
Pàgina 300 - Let the water under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so.